Say that name in Hollywood
and you're talking history of the movies from the early twenties!

At one point, there was
a Westmore brother at every major studio and if a major star needed making up - or frequently some other task that the public
didn't need to know about - there was a Westmore there to tackle the job!

Perc and Ern Westsmore
worked together for Douglas Fairbanks in the mid-twenties . . . : Mary Astor wrote about makeup during the twenties
when she was co-starring in her 1925 movie, Don Q, with Douglas Fairbanks. Maven isn't sure they were paid
enough to go through this stuff!

Perc Westmore was just one of Patriarch George Westmore's sons who followed him into the Hollywood makeup and
wig business. Just one of the stories that Brother Frank tells in his book (see Maven's MAVEN'S LIBRARY and the picture at the top of the page) tells how valuable Perc was to Warner Brothers Studio when they called him out
to handle a rather drunk Humphrey Bogart: